By fading back and forth between scenes of pre- and post-quake Tokyo, this time-lapse video by YouTube user darwinfish105 shows how the metropolitan nightscape has been affected by Japan's ongoing power shortages and conservation efforts.

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sanjirosan

still no updates, and I fear the worst might have happened to our friend. well much love to you and yours PT, and I hope all is well, if not I hope it gets better. So Cal love for you man, and Fight On Japan

alanabalana

virginia misses you, pink tenacle! i've shared your blog with so many fellow art teachers as a great way to peak students interest in japanese culture :) i hope you and yours are well and that you will come back soon! all the best to you.

envirion

valdemar

Let me add my thanks to those of other readers. This is a superb blog, a source of amusement and knowledge that I stumbled upon by chance one day. I've learned a lot thanks to you, PT. I hope you're well and happy somewhere.

Andrew

Greetings from Washington DC! I just wanted to join in with the others who have expressed their love for your blog and say thanks for all the interesting reads. Hope all is well with you and look forward to your return!

Hmmm

It's been awfully frustrating seeing what was once a beautifully rich and fascinating blog be thrown by the wayside. If the author was personally affected by the tsunami/earthquake, why on earth would they post posts in its aftermath? If the site has been abandoned, why no announcement of any kind? The Twitter account is untouched as well.

Something really strange has happened... I don't know what I should feel.

lunaemoth

I've been a fan for a long time. I was concerned when I heard about the quakes and tsunami, etc. Many months later I am still very concerned. I hope you are ok Pink Tentacle. Missing you in my various stops across the country, from New York, to Florida, and Utah. I wish you the best in health an success and hope for your return one day. Whatever the cause, know that there are many out there whose thoughts are with you.

Blackberrymochi

jello

Anyone got any idea what happened to Mr Pink Tentacle? I don't think he'd be the type to abandon his site so easily.
Also wondering what will happen to this site if he did "abandon" it whether willingly or unwillingly.... even if he uses a free hosting service would they continue to keep this site up when it's no longer being updated?

Blacknimbus

wallpaperfood

Pink Tentacle-san!!!!!!!!
Dearly missing your awesome blog here - I have yet to come across one as fascinating with all the unique tidbits on jap culture ranging from period art to modern-day scientific endeavours - to me, it is the best blog there is (or was..hopefully not) and I've been checking every so often since this time lapse video post! Where are you and what happened? It seems abrupt and strange that it should suddenly stop being updated. I hope everything is well!

Hulekule

Hey Pink Tentecale-san!
Miss the updates from you. all the cool and great stuff from own fav country.
Hope all is well and hope you will give a word or to so people know whats up.
You got alot of fans that think about you

vera

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Green Tentacle

Wow, I keep coming back hoping this blog starts up again. I miss my weekly dose of Pink Tentacle. I learned a lot from this blog, and hope all is well. How will the content of the blog continue if the site shuts down?

Ex

no news in over a year... for such an active author like PT one this means only 1 thing: RIP and the world it's a bit less bright now :-( if anyone got news (can't believe he had no personal friends browsing his BLOG) please give some kind of updates!

wallpaperfood

Hi PT, back again to check as usual :)
re: the poster above me, I hope not and I don't want to think the worst - but I can't come up with any other option :"(
If PT had decided to stop blogging, I'm sure there would have been an official post about it - but not seeing any signs of one, it makes me feel more downcast T_T

A LOT of my pictures in my picture gallery come from this site...on a sidenote

tiritomba

If any personal friend or relative of the website's curator visits this blog and sees these comments, I would like to ask them to kindly leave a message as to the wellbeing of the site's owner. Some of us are checking again and again, by now more disheartened than worried, and even if we did not know PT personally, his sudden disappearance is distressing to all who loved this place.

jazmine

Doc B

Hello, I would only reiterate the messages above- if anyone has information regarding the well-being of this site's author, it would be much appreciated. Pink Tentacle has been one of the best things on the web for a long time.

SamNicoresti

Hello, just came back to this blog after many months of waiting to find that still no new posts have been made, and would like to add my comment to the support and concern for the author's well-being. It's very sad that this blog has fallen silent, as it was a particular love of mine. It's a strange feeling when something so close to you suddenly goes away, and you realise just how helplessly far removed you actually were. Missing you, PT!

gabriel

hey folks, i too am really interested in finding out what happened to the author of this blog. i submitted a request to boing boing to ask if they had any information or could use their blogospere super powers to help find out, since they have linked many stories from here in the past, but nothing yet. maybe someone else could also chime in and ask them, or anybody else who might be able to help find out what happened.

Pxl

Tom

I'm surprised the page hasn't been shut down, unless someone's been maintaining it? Or maybe I just don't understand how internet blogs work.

Anyway, I really miss this blog, there's nothing else like it, really. And it is strange that no personal friends of the author have offered any news, considering how many comments there are on this post now. :\

tiritomba

looked the domain info up some time ago, and if i am not mistaken, it will go down on Dec 30th, 2013, if not taken care of by its owners. i'd absolutely hate to see all this work disappear. saved a copy of the entire site on my hard drive.

kengese

Just thought I'd throw this out there... I put up a short post on my blog in September of last year: "Pink Tentacle, Where Are You?" It's gotten over 750 hits in the past 9 months, and still counting... at least 10 hits per day lately. It's very sad.

I think it is significant, however, that there's no spam in the comment section...

sanjirosan

honestly I hope everything is ok with Edo. I would also like to pose a question, would someone be willing to email the guy who made this video and ask him if he knows Edo? one would think he asked his permission first, cause this is not the first time he has used one of this guys vids. I would have emailed him myself, but to my knowledge he only speaks japanese, and my written is trash. this is his blogger id that has an email he can be contacted at:http://www.blogger.com/profile/00110949246767254162
best of luck to anyone that is attempting to figure out this mystery

irene

Kaia

Hope you are okay. Visited your blog first time around end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011. Have been coming back on some occasions after you stopped blogging. Twitter posts suggest nothing really bad happened to you directly after the earthquake/tsunami, but where are you? : (

Mello

I still check this wonderful blog once every few months :'D How I wish I'd commented on all those posts to show my appreciation before this.
My very belated thank you, Pink Tentacle for all your great posts with such high quality pictures. Hopefully before the site's lease expires end of this year, we will see a post or even a comment just telling us Mr Pink Tentacle is still alive.
Til then, thank you PT.

BZou

It is really nice that this site got renewed. Maybe Mr. Pink tentacle intends to blog again soon. Hopefully. Either way I really hope this site doesn't get taken down. I like to go back to reread some of these awesome posts every now and then.

fishegg

deyo

Checking with the others. Sometimes I'll be stumble upon something fresh, different than the 'Japanese culture is so crazy!' articles that I see all over the internet... And I'll think about how its something I probably would have seen on pink tentacle. Thanks for all the cool posts on PT, amd o hope the author of the blog is well!

Mai

Mello

Today, I saw an article referring to Pink Tentacle on BoingBoing and rushed back here, cradling the tiny glimmer of hope that PinkTentacle was back. Alas, it was not to be and the article was from 2007.

I still find myself returning to this site every so often, digging up old articles I've not seen. Today, I'll be doing the same.
Am glad someone extended the site hosting to 2016, a big thank you to them!

My last visit to this blog was 4 years ago. I'm still looking for the owner of this blog after he/she suddenly stops posting in the event of earthquake in Japan.
Sincerely, i hope you are in good health out there.

And I thought of PT - haven't visited in a while. I can't believe it's still here after no new posts since 2011??! I don't know what happened but this was/is a great blog. Best wishes to the site owner. Hope he/she's okay.

Such a mystery...I remember checking this website religiously and felt a bit empty when you stopped updating. I hope all is well with you - still anticipating the day you start blogging again. A fantastic site that can't be replaced. Glad to see supporters yet in 2015 :)

Brian

It's so telling that some of us keep coming back here to this day 5 years later. I used to love this blog. The only one I never stopped reading. Always interesting, always beautiful. I miss it. It was like a part of me that not everyone got. But this blog got it. Miss you Pink Tentacle. I'll never take you off my tabs.

Elkkun33

I've been coming to this site since at least 2007. It is one of the best sites to this day, and I still show friends stuff from it all the time. I always thought that the worst happened since the last post was during the quake biz. But recently I was reading over the PT twitter feed, and the person said that they we're safe several times. I wish we could have a more final answer. (Or really just more content...). But Mostly I hope that the person running the site continues to be safe and happy. This site and it's community is one of the nicest on the web. If anyone ever wants to Muse over some old articles, I'd be happy to make some new chat friends. Elkkun3@gmail.com

Aengus

I am another person who checks back here occassionally. I do miss Pink Tentacles updates. I cant remember when I first found it, but it was a long time ago when PT was still active. It would be grreat to hear that everything was OK. The abrupt end was quite worrying and I suppose is the reason I check in every year or so.......